I haven't been to Blacksburg, but Boone is actually a hippie/lefty enclave, sort of a smaller-scale Asheville. Still a long ways, figuratively and literally, from Coral Gables. I think most teams have to fly into Tri Cities and then bus over the mountain from Tennessee.

I still haven't read anything that explains how this game happened. I know it was a late add -- last November I think. Doesn't seem like there would be a lot of upside. But maybe Miami knew it had a huge beatdown coming at Notre Dame and wanted to at least try to play a road game it could win.

I haven't been to Blacksburg, but Boone is actually a hippie/lefty enclave, sort of a smaller-scale Asheville. Still a long ways, figuratively and literally, from Coral Gables. I think most teams have to fly into Tri Cities and then bus over the mountain from Tennessee.

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Boone is definitely more of a small-scale Asheville than it is Blacksburg. Had fun on my one trip there.

I still haven't read anything that explains how this game happened. I know it was a late add -- last November I think. Doesn't seem like there would be a lot of upside. But maybe Miami knew it had a huge beatdown coming at Notre Dame and wanted to at least try to play a road game it could win.

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This story makes it sound like it was just a great sales job by the App State AD. Miami having an interim coach at the time probably helped.